由Hong和Pavlic（2021）引入的单隐式层随机加权特征网络（RWFN）被开发为关系学习任务的神经张量网络方法的替代方案。其相对较小的占地面积结合使用了两个随机输入投影 - 一种昆虫 - 脑激发的输入表示和随机傅里叶特征 - 允许它以相对较低的培训成本实现有关关系的丰富表现力。特别是，当红和帕德奇比较RWFN到逻辑张量网络（LTNS）进行语义图像解释（SII）任务以提取图像的结构化语义描述，他们表明，两个隐藏的RWFN集成更好地捕获输入之间的关系具有更快的培训过程，即使它使用了更少的学习参数。在本文中，我们使用RWFN来执行视觉关系检测（VRD）任务，这些任务是更具挑战性的SII任务。零拍摄学习方法与RWFN一起使用，可以利用与其他所见关系和背景知识的相似性 - 以对象，关系和对象之间的逻辑约束表示 - 实现能够预测未出现在培训中的三维群体放。在视觉关系数据集上的实验，用于比较RWFN和LTNS之间的性能，其中一个领先的统计关系学习框架之一，显示RWFNS以谓词检测任务的销售胜过LTNS，同时使用较少数量的适应性参数（1:56比率）。此外，即使RWFNS的空间复杂性远小于LTNS（1:27比率），RWFN表示的背景技术也可用于减轻训练集的不完整性。

深度学习技术导致了通用对象检测领域的显着突破，近年来产生了很多场景理解的任务。由于其强大的语义表示和应用于场景理解，场景图一直是研究的焦点。场景图生成（SGG）是指自动将图像映射到语义结构场景图中的任务，这需要正确标记检测到的对象及其关系。虽然这是一项具有挑战性的任务，但社区已经提出了许多SGG方法并取得了良好的效果。在本文中，我们对深度学习技术带来了近期成就的全面调查。我们审查了138个代表作品，涵盖了不同的输入方式，并系统地将现有的基于图像的SGG方法从特征提取和融合的角度进行了综述。我们试图通过全面的方式对现有的视觉关系检测方法进行连接和系统化现有的视觉关系检测方法，概述和解释SGG的机制和策略。最后，我们通过深入讨论当前存在的问题和未来的研究方向来完成这项调查。本调查将帮助读者更好地了解当前的研究状况和想法。

场景图是一个场景的结构化表示，可以清楚地表达场景中对象之间的对象，属性和关系。随着计算机视觉技术继续发展，只需检测和识别图像中的对象，人们不再满足。相反，人们期待着对视觉场景更高的理解和推理。例如，给定图像，我们希望不仅检测和识别图像中的对象，还要知道对象之间的关系（视觉关系检测），并基于图像内容生成文本描述（图像标题）。或者，我们可能希望机器告诉我们图像中的小女孩正在做什么（视觉问题应答（VQA）），甚至从图像中移除狗并找到类似的图像（图像编辑和检索）等。这些任务需要更高水平的图像视觉任务的理解和推理。场景图只是场景理解的强大工具。因此，场景图引起了大量研究人员的注意力，相关的研究往往是跨模型，复杂，快速发展的。然而，目前没有对场景图的相对系统的调查。为此，本调查对现行场景图研究进行了全面调查。更具体地说，我们首先总结了场景图的一般定义，随后对场景图（SGG）和SGG的发电方法进行了全面和系统的讨论，借助于先验知识。然后，我们调查了场景图的主要应用，并汇总了最常用的数据集。最后，我们对场景图的未来发展提供了一些见解。我们相信这将是未来研究场景图的一个非常有帮助的基础。

Understanding a visual scene goes beyond recognizing individual objects in isolation. Relationships between objects also constitute rich semantic information about the scene. In this work, we explicitly model the objects and their relationships using scene graphs, a visually-grounded graphical structure of an image. We propose a novel endto-end model that generates such structured scene representation from an input image. The model solves the scene graph inference problem using standard RNNs and learns to iteratively improves its predictions via message passing. Our joint inference model can take advantage of contextual cues to make better predictions on objects and their relationships. The experiments show that our model significantly outperforms previous methods for generating scene graphs using Visual Genome dataset and inferring support relations with NYU Depth v2 dataset.

人工智能代理必须从周围环境中学到学习，并了解所学习的知识，以便做出决定。虽然从数据的最先进的学习通常使用子符号分布式表示，但是使用用于知识表示的一阶逻辑语言，推理通常在更高的抽象级别中有用。结果，将符号AI和神经计算结合成神经符号系统的尝试已经增加。在本文中，我们呈现了逻辑张量网络（LTN），一种神经组织形式和计算模型，通过引入许多值的端到端可分别的一阶逻辑来支持学习和推理，称为真实逻辑作为表示语言深入学习。我们表明LTN为规范提供了统一的语言，以及多个AI任务的计算，如数据聚类，多标签分类，关系学习，查询应答，半监督学习，回归和嵌入学习。我们使用TensorFlow2的许多简单的解释例实施和说明上述每个任务。关键词：神经组音恐怖症，深度学习和推理，许多值逻辑。

最近，几种技术旨在通过合并背景知识来提高场景图生成（SGG）的深度学习模型的性能。最先进的技术可以分为两个家庭：一个以潜在的方式将背景知识纳入模型，而另一种则以象征性形式保持背景知识。尽管有希望的结果，但两个技术家族都面临着几个缺点：第一个需要临时，更复杂的神经体系结构来增加培训或推理成本；第二个遭受有限的可伸缩性W.R.T.背景知识的大小。我们的工作引入了一种正则化技术，将符号背景知识注入神经SGG模型，以克服先前的艺术局限性。我们的技术是模型不合时宜的，在推理时间不会产生任何成本，并缩放到以前难以管理的背景知识规模。我们证明我们的技术可以提高最新SGG模型的准确性，最多可提高33％。

Scene graphs provide a rich, structured representation of a scene by encoding the entities (objects) and their spatial relationships in a graphical format. This representation has proven useful in several tasks, such as question answering, captioning, and even object detection, to name a few. Current approaches take a generation-by-classification approach where the scene graph is generated through labeling of all possible edges between objects in a scene, which adds computational overhead to the approach. This work introduces a generative transformer-based approach to generating scene graphs beyond link prediction. Using two transformer-based components, we first sample a possible scene graph structure from detected objects and their visual features. We then perform predicate classification on the sampled edges to generate the final scene graph. This approach allows us to efficiently generate scene graphs from images with minimal inference overhead. Extensive experiments on the Visual Genome dataset demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach. Without bells and whistles, we obtain, on average, 20.7% mean recall (mR@100) across different settings for scene graph generation (SGG), outperforming state-of-the-art SGG approaches while offering competitive performance to unbiased SGG approaches.

Scene graph generation from images is a task of great interest to applications such as robotics, because graphs are the main way to represent knowledge about the world and regulate human-robot interactions in tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). Unfortunately, its corresponding area of machine learning is still relatively in its infancy, and the solutions currently offered do not specialize well in concrete usage scenarios. Specifically, they do not take existing "expert" knowledge about the domain world into account; and that might indeed be necessary in order to provide the level of reliability demanded by the use case scenarios. In this paper, we propose an initial approximation to a framework called Ontology-Guided Scene Graph Generation (OG-SGG), that can improve the performance of an existing machine learning based scene graph generator using prior knowledge supplied in the form of an ontology (specifically, using the axioms defined within); and we present results evaluated on a specific scenario founded in telepresence robotics. These results show quantitative and qualitative improvements in the generated scene graphs.

We propose a novel scene graph generation model called Graph R-CNN, that is both effective and efficient at detecting objects and their relations in images. Our model contains a Relation Proposal Network (RePN) that efficiently deals with the quadratic number of potential relations between objects in an image. We also propose an attentional Graph Convolutional Network (aGCN) that effectively captures contextual information between objects and relations. Finally, we introduce a new evaluation metric that is more holistic and realistic than existing metrics. We report state-of-the-art performance on scene graph generation as evaluated using both existing and our proposed metrics.

机器学习方法尤其是深度神经网络取得了巨大的成功，但其中许多往往依赖于一些标记的样品进行训练。在真实世界的应用中，我们经常需要通过例如具有新兴预测目标和昂贵的样本注释的动态上下文来解决样本短缺。因此，低资源学习，旨在学习具有足够资源（特别是培训样本）的强大预测模型，现在正在被广泛调查。在所有低资源学习研究中，许多人更喜欢以知识图（kg）的形式利用一些辅助信息，这对于知识表示变得越来越受欢迎，以减少对标记样本的依赖。在这项调查中，我们非常全面地审查了90美元的报纸关于两个主要的低资源学习设置 - 零射击学习（ZSL）的预测，从未出现过训练，而且很少拍摄的学习（FSL）预测的新类仅具有可用的少量标记样本。我们首先介绍了ZSL和FSL研究中使用的KGS以及现有的和潜在的KG施工解决方案，然后系统地分类和总结了KG感知ZSL和FSL方法，将它们划分为不同的范例，例如基于映射的映射，数据增强，基于传播和基于优化的。我们接下来呈现了不同的应用程序，包括计算机视觉和自然语言处理中的kg增强预测任务，还包括kg完成的任务，以及每个任务的一些典型评估资源。我们最终讨论了一些关于新学习和推理范式的方面的一些挑战和未来方向，以及高质量的KGs的建设。

Visual relationships capture a wide variety of interactions between pairs of objects in images (e.g. "man riding bicycle" and "man pushing bicycle"). Consequently, the set of possible relationships is extremely large and it is difficult to obtain sufficient training examples for all possible relationships. Because of this limitation, previous work on visual relationship detection has concentrated on predicting only a handful of relationships. Though most relationships are infrequent, their objects (e.g. "man" and "bicycle") and predicates (e.g. "riding" and "pushing") independently occur more frequently. We propose a model that uses this insight to train visual models for objects and predicates individually and later combines them together to predict multiple relationships per image. We improve on prior work by leveraging language priors from semantic word embeddings to finetune the likelihood of a predicted relationship. Our model can scale to predict thousands of types of relationships from a few examples. Additionally, we localize the objects in the predicted relationships as bounding boxes in the image. We further demonstrate that understanding relationships can improve content based image retrieval.

在图像理解项目中越来越多的情况下，场景图一代在电脑视觉研究中获得了很多关注，如视觉问题应答，图像标题，自动驾驶汽车，人群行为分析，活动识别等等。场景图，图像的视觉图形结构，非常有助于简化图像理解任务。在这项工作中，我们介绍了一个称为几何上下文的后处理算法，以了解视觉场景更好的几何上。我们使用该后处理算法在对象对与先前模型之间添加和改进几何关系。我们通过计算对象对之间的方向和距离来利用此上下文。我们使用知识嵌入式路由网络（KERN）作为我们的基准模型，将工作与我们的算法扩展，并显示最近最先进的算法上的可比结果。

We investigate the problem of producing structured graph representations of visual scenes. Our work analyzes the role of motifs: regularly appearing substructures in scene graphs. We present new quantitative insights on such repeated structures in the Visual Genome dataset. Our analysis shows that object labels are highly predictive of relation labels but not vice-versa. We also find that there are recurring patterns even in larger subgraphs: more than 50% of graphs contain motifs involving at least two relations. Our analysis motivates a new baseline: given object detections, predict the most frequent relation between object pairs with the given labels, as seen in the training set. This baseline improves on the previous state-of-the-art by an average of 3.6% relative improvement across evaluation settings. We then introduce Stacked Motif Networks, a new architecture designed to capture higher order motifs in scene graphs that further improves over our strong baseline by an average 7.1% relative gain. Our code is available at github.com/rowanz/neural-motifs.

Two approaches to AI, neural networks and symbolic systems, have been proven very successful for an array of AI problems. However, neither has been able to achieve the general reasoning ability required for human-like intelligence. It has been argued that this is due to inherent weaknesses in each approach. Luckily, these weaknesses appear to be complementary, with symbolic systems being adept at the kinds of things neural networks have trouble with and vice-versa. The field of neural-symbolic AI attempts to exploit this asymmetry by combining neural networks and symbolic AI into integrated systems. Often this has been done by encoding symbolic knowledge into neural networks. Unfortunately, although many different methods for this have been proposed, there is no common definition of an encoding to compare them. We seek to rectify this problem by introducing a semantic framework for neural-symbolic AI, which is then shown to be general enough to account for a large family of neural-symbolic systems. We provide a number of examples and proofs of the application of the framework to the neural encoding of various forms of knowledge representation and neural network. These, at first sight disparate approaches, are all shown to fall within the framework's formal definition of what we call semantic encoding for neural-symbolic AI.

This paper presents a framework for jointly grounding objects that follow certain semantic relationship constraints given in a scene graph. A typical natural scene contains several objects, often exhibiting visual relationships of varied complexities between them. These inter-object relationships provide strong contextual cues toward improving grounding performance compared to a traditional object query-only-based localization task. A scene graph is an efficient and structured way to represent all the objects and their semantic relationships in the image. In an attempt towards bridging these two modalities representing scenes and utilizing contextual information for improving object localization, we rigorously study the problem of grounding scene graphs on natural images. To this end, we propose a novel graph neural network-based approach referred to as Visio-Lingual Message PAssing Graph Neural Network (VL-MPAG Net). In VL-MPAG Net, we first construct a directed graph with object proposals as nodes and an edge between a pair of nodes representing a plausible relation between them. Then a three-step inter-graph and intra-graph message passing is performed to learn the context-dependent representation of the proposals and query objects. These object representations are used to score the proposals to generate object localization. The proposed method significantly outperforms the baselines on four public datasets.

视觉关系检测旨在检测图像中对象之间的相互作用。但是，由于对象和相互作用的多样性，此任务遭受了组合爆炸的影响。由于与同一对象相关的相互作用是依赖的，因此我们探讨了相互作用的依赖性以减少搜索空间。我们通过交互图明确地对象和交互对象进行建模，然后提出一种消息式风格的算法来传播上下文信息。因此，我们称为建议的方法神经信息传递（NMP）。我们进一步整合了语言先验和空间线索，以排除不切实际的互动并捕获空间互动。两个基准数据集的实验结果证明了我们提出的方法的优越性。我们的代码可在https://github.com/phyllish/nmp上找到。

图像字幕显示可以通过使用场景图来表示图像中对象的关系来实现更好的性能。当前字幕编码器通常使用图形卷积网（GCN）来表示关系信息，并通过串联或卷积将其与对象区域特征合并，以获取句子解码的最终输入。但是，由于两个原因，现有方法中基于GCN的编码器在字幕上的有效性较小。首先，使用图像字幕作为目标（即最大似然估计），而不是以关系为中心的损失无法完全探索编码器的潜力。其次，使用预训练的模型代替编码器本身提取关系不是灵活的，并且不能有助于模型的解释性。为了提高图像字幕的质量，我们提出了一个新颖的体系结构改革者 - 一种关系变压器，可以生成具有嵌入关系信息的功能，并明确表达图像中对象之间的成对关系。改革者将场景图的生成目标与使用一个修改后的变压器模型的图像字幕结合在一起。这种设计使改革者不仅可以通过提取强大的关系图像特征的利益生成更好的图像标题，还可以生成场景图，以明确描述配对关系。公开可用数据集的实验表明，我们的模型在图像字幕和场景图生成上的最先进方法明显优于最先进的方法

Recent years have witnessed the resurgence of knowledge engineering which is featured by the fast growth of knowledge graphs. However, most of existing knowledge graphs are represented with pure symbols, which hurts the machine's capability to understand the real world. The multi-modalization of knowledge graphs is an inevitable key step towards the realization of human-level machine intelligence. The results of this endeavor are Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs (MMKGs). In this survey on MMKGs constructed by texts and images, we first give definitions of MMKGs, followed with the preliminaries on multi-modal tasks and techniques. We then systematically review the challenges, progresses and opportunities on the construction and application of MMKGs respectively, with detailed analyses of the strength and weakness of different solutions. We finalize this survey with open research problems relevant to MMKGs.

同一场景中的不同对象彼此之间或多或少相关，但是只有有限数量的这些关系值得注意。受到对象检测效果的DETR的启发，我们将场景图生成视为集合预测问题，并提出了具有编码器decoder架构的端到端场景图生成模型RELTR。关于视觉特征上下文的编码器原因是，解码器使用带有耦合主题和对象查询的不同类型的注意机制渗透了一组固定大小的三胞胎主题prodicate-object。我们设计了一套预测损失，以执行地面真相与预测三胞胎之间的匹配。与大多数现有场景图生成方法相反，Reltr是一种单阶段方法，它仅使用视觉外观直接预测一组关系，而无需结合实体并标记所有可能的谓词。视觉基因组和开放图像V6数据集的广泛实验证明了我们模型的出色性能和快速推断。

Neural-symbolic computing aims at integrating robust neural learning and sound symbolic reasoning into a single framework, so as to leverage the complementary strengths of both of these, seemingly unrelated (maybe even contradictory) AI paradigms. The central challenge in neural-symbolic computing is to unify the formulation of neural learning and symbolic reasoning into a single framework with common semantics, that is, to seek a joint representation between a neural model and a logical theory that can support the basic grounding learned by the neural model and also stick to the semantics of the logical theory. In this paper, we propose differentiable fuzzy $\mathcal{ALC}$ (DF-$\mathcal{ALC}$) for this role, as a neural-symbolic representation language with the desired semantics. DF-$\mathcal{ALC}$ unifies the description logic $\mathcal{ALC}$ and neural models for symbol grounding; in particular, it infuses an $\mathcal{ALC}$ knowledge base into neural models through differentiable concept and role embeddings. We define a hierarchical loss to the constraint that the grounding learned by neural models must be semantically consistent with $\mathcal{ALC}$ knowledge bases. And we find that capturing the semantics in grounding solely by maximizing satisfiability cannot revise grounding rationally. We further define a rule-based loss for DF adapting to symbol grounding problems. The experiment results show that DF-$\mathcal{ALC}$ with rule-based loss can improve the performance of image object detectors in an unsupervised learning way, even in low-resource situations.